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Brewerytown

Brewerytown: Coffee Shop Doubles as a Resource for Former Foster Youths

June 3, 2016Jordan Gunselman and

Though it seems like an ordinary coffee shop, The Monkey & The Elephant in Brewerytown is an entirely unique organization. Its only employees, besides management, are young people who have just recently exited the foster system.

Brewerytown

Brewerytown: David Waxman, MM Partners Building up Brewerytown

June 3, 2016Jordan Gunselman and

Historically, business in Brewerytown has had its ups and downs. The arrival of prohibition in America shut down its booming breweries and distilleries, but industry survived into the mid 1900s. By the 1980s, jobs disappeared and

Amateur Sports

Fishtown: ZogSportsPHL Giving Back to Charity Through Amateur Sports

June 2, 2016Andrew J Knight

On the Morning of 9/11, Robert Herzog was on his way to work. His office building was located on the 96th floor of World Trade Center One (North Tower). That morning, he did things he

Amateur Sports

Germantown: Officer Ernest Pollard Helps Keep Inner City Youth Off the Streets

June 2, 2016Andrew J Knight and

Those around him have often recognized Officer Ernest Pollard (above) for his dedication and desire to help others inside of the Goldie Paley PAL Center, as well as on the streets of Philadelphia … and on

Old City

Old City: Carriage Driver Turned Teacher

June 1, 2016Allison Christine Clark and

Kelly Filbert is a horse carriage driver in Old City. Being a horse carriage driver has made her find a love for history. She wants to pass her knowledge on to everyone who steps into

Featured Stories

Manayunk: Kevin Smith Fights for Development that Makes Sense

May 26, 2016Kevin F Barr and

Kevin Smith is president of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council, a not-for-profit civic association dedicated to promoting a unified and sustainable community in Manayunk. Smith, who was raised in Southern California and moved to Manayunk about

Abandoned Property

Education: Five Schools Impacted By Budget Cuts

May 18, 2016Ryan C Snowden and

As education budget cuts have spread throughout the state of Pennsylvania, building closures present a way for school districts to quickly lower their costs. In Philadelphia, a large wave of closings occurred in 2013. During

Business

North Philadelphia: Infrastructure of The Internet Highlights Digital Divide

May 11, 2016Daniel T. Pelligrine and

Just a few feet beneath every Philadelphian exists a web of veins responsible for carrying precious information, like the oxygen carried by our blood, to and from the city.  Just as oxygen is needed by

Business

Kensington: Program Seeks To Empower Businesses In American Street Corridor

May 5, 2016Kathryn Matheson

The American Street Empowerment Zone is all about facilitating job creation and economic development for Kensington – two things that aren’t easy and require diligence and patience. “It takes time. Economic development doesn’t happen overnight,”

Environment

East Passyunk: After Success In South Philly, Brothers Expand Grocery Business

May 2, 2016Abigail Durey

More than six years ago, two brothers dove into their savings and maxed out their credit cards to follow their passion and share it with the people around them. “There was a demand for a

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  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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